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Nashville

February 4, 2014

As I mentioned yesterday, I spent the weekend in Nashville with 3 of my longest friends…my “forever friends”. I’ve known one since preschool, one since kindergarten and one since 7th grade. We had the BEST time laughing, eating, laughing, shopping, and laughing. 🙂 I also got to see my great college friend that lives in Nashville while we were there. It was such a fun weekend with besties from all parts of life! I also have to say that Nashville is an AWESOME city. It was fun when I went to school there but it’s a completely different place now. So cosmopolitan and cultural but still maintains that down home feel. We had some of the best meals of my life and the whole city is such a hot spot of all things cool. Go Nash-vegas! If you’re planning a trip, do whatever you can to eat dinner at Rolf and Daughters. Ahhh-mazing. And go check out Pinewood Social. Great food and such a neat concept. We stayed at the brand new Omni (which was packed because there were auditions for The Voice next door!) and it was super nice and just fantastic all around.

The best part of the trip though was just getting to spend time with these girls…

nashville

By the way, as much as I love my new clutch and new Frye boots, this was my favorite purchase of the weekend!

fire truck shirt

I came home with two for two very sweet boys. 🙂

Meanwhile, back in the Ham, Robert was being the best dad ever and keeping the boys entertained with the swings, doughnuts, a trip to HD and even building a fort!

nashville weekend

Go Dad!

As much fun as I had on my weekend away, the best part was definitely coming home…

home

Love my girls and love my boys!

A little more snow

January 31, 2014

Today just some more pictures from our two days living in a winter wonderland…

snow days

The boys were trying really hard to build a “Frosty” but the snow was so powdery it just wouldn’t stick together…

snow man

But Maxwell and I got out there the next day and made two snowmen! success and happy boy!

snow man

The leaf hats were his idea! 🙂

snow man

When we were outside on Tuesday we saw this coming down the road…

mail truck

Needless to say, we didn’t get our mail that day!

On Wednesday morning we did bundle up and venture down the road to grab coffee at Church St. which was actually open. Robert was literally skating down the road.

snow

It was all such an adventure.

snow

Now that we’ve had our snow fun, I’m very happy for a weekend in the 60’s! Happy Friday all!

Snow fun!

January 30, 2014

Wednesday was a true snow day. The city of Birmingham was basically shut down. It’s been a major disaster around here and I’m just so thankful that my little family was safe and warm at home. Susan finally made it home at 3:30 yesterday afternoon after leaving our house at 10:30 am on Tuesday! There are so, so many stories of people being stranded, walking home and much worse. Snow is fun but only when you’re at home! Not surprisingly, Spencer’s tube surgery was cancelled for tomorrow and will likely be next Thursday. My brother’s back surgery is still on for today though so keep him in your thoughts if you don’t mind. UPDATE – surgery went great! thank goodness!

We did get out and play in the snow and I snapped a bunch of pictures. I hope you like pictures of babies playing in the snow – because you’re about to get a lot! 🙂

snow days

It was cold and fun! Yay for snow days that only come once every few years! 🙂

snow days

Snowpocalypse

January 29, 2014

So…Tuesday. Oh, Tuesday. The day started normally with a weather forecast for cold temps and maybe a “light dusting” of snow. The flurries started at 9:00 – so fun! – but then it just kept coming. Susan had taken the boys to the library but then came home early when the weather started to get bad. By 10:40 she was on her way home and Robert left his office as well. That’s when the adventure began! The roads got really bad, really fast. Robert’s office is at the top of a hill and he didn’t even make it down the hill before slipping and sliding everywhere and eventually getting rear-ended. He then got into the parking lot of Target at Brookwood Mall, bought some boots, gloves and a hat and took off on foot. An hour and approximately 4 snowy miles later we were VERY glad to see this coming up the driveway…

snow

Go USA and go Dad!

snow

Unfortunately, many were not as lucky as Robert and didn’t make it home – Susan included! As I’m typing this Monday night, Susan is stranded at the Birmingham Country Club! From the reports I have read on Facebook it’s been a total snowpocalypse – cars abandoned on the side of the roads, wrecks everywhere, people sitting on interstates for hours, children stranded at the junior high and high school. What a mess! The main problem was that the meteorologist didn’t predict this so no one was prepared. Kids went to school this morning and then, at 10:30, they announced school was closing at 10:45. By that point, the roads were already virtually impassable. By 2:00 we had 3 inches of snow on the ground and everything looked like a (dangerous!) winter wonderland!

snow day

I am just so grateful that Robert made it home, fender bender or not! I’m also so, so grateful that I ended up taking Maxwell up to the doctor on Monday so I wasn’t either trying to get him up to the doctor yesterday or stuck at home with a super sick kid and no way to get medicine for him. I will say, after only 2 days on amoxicillin he’s already feeling worlds better. Yay!

With everyone happily safe at home, we all bundled up and got out to play in the snow!

snow

snow day

I took tons of pics with my real camera so will get those up soon. It was a stressful, eventful and ultimately fun day!

Monday Monday

January 28, 2014

So…Monday. Oh, Monday. I had an appointment to take Spencer to the ENT yesterday to discuss the possibility of getting tubes. He’s had enough ear infections to warrant a discussion. Plus, I don’t want to him to have to continue to take so many antibiotics and, also, a part of me is wondering if his ears have anything to do with the fact that he’s not really talking yet. Maxwell should have been at school while I took Spencer but he started complaining of a sore throat on Sunday afternoon. By Sunday night he was miserable – and told me so with screaming tears throughout the night at 11:00, 1:00, 3:30 and 5:00. So, not only did I need to take Spencer to the doc Monday morning, but I had to take Maxwell as well.

I should have known the day was not going to be great when I had them all dressed and ready to walk out the door only to see that Spencer had managed to crawl a hole through the knee of his pants…

pants

1 point for Monday.

(ps – that’s my finger poking through the hole,not a footless leg. I had already taken the pants off when I took the picture.)

After a quick pant change, we went to the ENT and the doctor confirmed that he would recommend tubes for Spencer. In medical terms, he basically said there is so little downside that it can only be a good thing for him. No more antibiotics, no more fluid in his ears, etc. We got the surgery scheduled for Thursday – no time like the present, I guess!

ent

2 points for Monday.

While at the ENT, I also had him look in Maxwell’s throat. He said it looked red but couldn’t tell yet if the small white patches were going to be a virus or bacterial infection or anything at all. He recommended waiting another day until going to see the pediatrician to see what was really going to develop on his throat. Well, I already had the appointment with Dr. Walley and we were already out so I just decided to go on up there anyway. I’m very glad I did. Maxwell felt about this good…

dr walley

Dr. Walley looked in his throat and said that was a pretty clear cut case of strep. The strep test confirmed it 10 minutes later. Ugh. Poor, poor guy. Cue up the amoxicillin.

3 points for Monday.

I already had an appointment in the calendar to take Spencer up to Dr. Walley on Wednesday of this week to get his 15 month shots that he wasn’t able to get last week at his check-up because he had an ear infection. While we were up there I asked if they could just go on and do them and they could! yay! Well, yay for me…not so yay for this sleeping dude…

sleeping baby

He had a very rude awakening about 2 minutes later.

4 points for Monday.

I then learned that my brother has to have back surgery on Thursday for a herniated disk. Not fun, not fun at all.

5 points for Monday.

So, I ended Monday with strep, shots and 2 surgeries. Phew. Well played, Monday. Well played. Is it Friday yet?

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